Whether you're a conservative or a liberal, you know doubt have an opinion on the national debt and the U.S. federal budget.
John Milewski | Posted 12.14.2009 | Politics
At a session on the looming debt crisis comprised of Republicans, Democrats, and others, one of the key findings of the group is that the "process is broken."
Marcella Mroczkowski | Posted 12.10.2009 | Politics
Republicans in the age of Al-Qaeda have morphed into a Western, Christianist, mirror-image of their Islamist enemies. Bad political movements, like Tolstoy's happy families, are all alike. Look for three traits.
Eric Lotke | Posted 12.09.2009 | Politics
Educating the public is partly our job. We need to talk about budgeting responsibly in the long run and kick starting the economy right away. We need to move past the "false choice" between jobs now and growth later.
Robert Creamer | Posted 12.08.2009 | Politics
Last month's drop in the unemployment rate is certainly good news. But without additional action, there is little likelihood that the economy will return to anything resembling full employment.
Dylan Loewe | Posted 12.07.2009 | Politics
The best thing that can happen to the Democrats for the long-term in 2010 is to lose just enough seats that a) it won't impact their majority, but that b) the Republicans will think they won big.
Michael Kieschnick | Posted 12.02.2009 | Politics
Afghanistan is surely not Vietnam. It is worse. It is easily ten times more costly and much less popular both in the U.S. and in the country we occupy after eight years of war.
David Fiderer | Posted 12.02.2009 | Business
In places like Phoenix, 54% of homeowners with mortgages have negative equity. That's about half a million underwater mortgages, more than the combined totals in Texas and New York state, where 10 times as many people live.
Donnie Fowler | Posted 11.25.2009 | Politics
The lies that we are getting from the Republicans, supported too often by the mainstream media, have put the entire federal deficit and debt onto Barack Obama's shoulders. Well, here's the truth about it.
Ann Pettifor | Posted 11.25.2009 | Business
Government must manage the federal budget in the same way that you manage your household budget. But in truth, the president must do the opposite.
Will Marshall | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics
In taking a purely obstructionist stance, the GOP has evinced scant empathy for tens of millions of fellow Americans who lack basic protection against illness or injury. So much for compassionate conservatism.
Dean Baker | Posted 11.23.2009 | Business
Relative to the size of the economy, America's deficit level does not come close to the levels hit in World War II. The idea that we are near some debt-driven crisis is absurd.
Dean Baker | Posted 11.16.2009 | Business
The Wall Street gang may have suckered us with getting the TARP bailout money last year, but we don't have to let them get away with the same trick again.
Robert Reich | Posted 11.08.2009 | Business
Obama must return to Congress for more stimulus spending. Here's how he should sell it.
Amitai Etzioni | Posted 11.05.2009 | Business
The Obama Administration is planning to start cutting the deficit soon. Even merely to discuss tax raises, expenditure cuts, and the increases in interest rates that are entailed will slow the recovery.
Aaron E. Carroll | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics
People are saying that health care reform is going to break the bank. No. Health care costs are what might bankrupt us. I am all in favor of reducing those, but railing against the cost of reform while ignoring all the rest is willful ignorance.
Jay Mandle | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics
The next great political fight will be over a post-recession reduction in government spending in the name of narrowing the gap between government revenues and expenditures.
Robert Reich | Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics
The optimist in me says Obama can pivot off a health-care victory and launch some new initiatives that palpably and quickly spur job growth. The realist says there aren't any such initiatives.
Zachary Karabell | Posted 10.23.2009 | Business
With China now accounting for nearly $1 trillion of American debt, the U.S. can't simply insist that it do something about its currency and expect action. Geithner has been right in not publicly calling out China.
Bob Burnett | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics
It's been nine months since Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th President of the United States. Time enough to grade the job he's done and consider...
Max Fraad Wolff | Posted 10.20.2009 | Business
Despite the excitement over the stock markets, credit markets remain ground zero. They are where defaults destroy fortunes but they are also crucial to US industrial growth.
Capital Gains and Games | Stan Collender | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics
Despite the headlines and the page-one, right-hand column, above-the-fold stories in the New York Times and Washington Post on Saturday, I'm not at al...
AP | JEANNINE AVERSA | Posted 11.02.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON — Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke called Monday for the United States to whittle down its record-high budget deficits and for c...
nytimes.com | MICHAEL COOPER | Posted 11.02.2009 | Business
Businesses that got stimulus contracts directly from the federal government reported creating or saving 30,383 jobs so far, according to data publishe...
Henry Blodget | Posted 10.15.2009 | Business
We had the White House's Christina Romer on TechTicker this week. She says the president's "not cool" with our huge deficits.
Billy Hallowell | Posted 12.15.2009 | Politics